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For cpr, en route its just the time it takes to get to the hospital because again we are out in bumfuck nowhere. I can see where we wouldnt pick up someone who is baltenly dead but if they begin to crash and it has to be performed I dont want to be doing cpr for an hour to the closest hospital. As I learned last night we go to the end of the county to pick people up and they can decide where they want to go from there to the next county over or in the county we are in. And for the no restraining thing that came straight from the captian of my squad. I do agree that it is better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6. This weekend I hooked up with a few of the emts there and they told me some of the ways of getting around it hopefully when our new protocols come out it will change. Dont get me wrong I love the cops so far here they have been great to ems I (secrectly of course) like them better than baltimore cops. They have been to all but 1 calls I went to this weekend and impressed me greatly with the amount of help they provided on scene and actually gave a shit about our saftey too. I have never yet had to restrain someone and hope that I never do, Im just still getting used to the new system. Apparently here you can call 911 for a non emergency and ems will still come get you. Again different states different rules

well some things do make sense like dont give a pt nitro if they have taken vigra that will end badly. But again other things dont. Again the thumper thing has me stumped I dont want to do cpr for an hour ride here in tractor/cow/horse crossing city. Here if you restrain them, you can get charged with battery.... yeah so I just let them beat the crap out of me right......

I think its stupid that here in nc inorder to restrain a pt you have to call the police to come do it while letting then tear your rear apart waiting. In md we could call medical direction and just tie them down with cravats. I can understand the legality but really I dont want to be torn a new one because someone drank too much and thinks Im a cop and I dont think it would be best to leave a rampaging pt in the back of the rig alone. And the fact that until 09 I can only give oral glucose but come january 1st Im allowed to give narcan, use cpap (I got certified in abltimore so we werent taught how to use that there) and do a 12 led ekg..... Yeah that is out of my scope of pratice. Go onslow county for confusing the heck out of me. I know different places different protocols it just confuses me Oh and why does baltimore city/county carry a thumper but here out in bumfuck they dont even know what it is? We have 2 hospitals here it would be beneficial to have the thumper here not in baltimore where you have 13 hospitals all within a few minutes of eachother I know Im a newbie I just had to get out what doesnt make sense to people who understand

In my experience it seems to be that I look young and some of the pt's I've encountered seem to think the younger you look the less you know. I look 16 on a good day (I've gotten as young as 12 come on now Im almost 21!!!). I have actually had a pt request the paramedic I was riding with redo the blood pressure because I couldn't possibly be correct being as young as I was. (In the end I was right) I can understand the fear of oh gosh they are so young they are going to screw up but it does seem that when I worked with my ems partner back home the pt's were more inclined to do what he said or talk to him rather than me. Sex doesn't make a difference in how good you are in ems in my opinion. I've worked with some of the worst between both sexes. Yes women can tend to be more.... pms-y and IC an understand where some people can assume we cant hold our own but I've seen it where female emts can lift more than some men. I've had it at my old volly house where our assistant chief had a case of the arse against women and thought we were inferior to him and he picked on us (not in a nice way) ever single chance he got. It could also be that the female pt's just want to talk to the cute firefighter or emt on scene instead of you. Just like with any profession there are "tag chasers". I wouldn't chalk this up to every female pt but it does have some truth to it. Prejudice will happen it may be because you look young, your small, or whatever other reason. All in all it should have nothing to do with your sex it should have to do with your skill you will get people everywhere who will doubt you for some reason

I am in jacksonville nc but thank you for the offer I appreciate it. Thanks everyone else for the welcome

Hi my name is ashely. Im a 20 year old emt b from baltimore maryland but currently the governments guest at camp lejeune nc until august or so. Ive been an emt for about 4 years I went through a high school program. I currently volunteer down here in good old jacksonville I let my skills go when I moved, I had a bad call and was undecided if ems was really for me but honestly I cant see myself doing anything else. Now Im working on getting my skills back up so I can go into the paid department when I move back home and getting used to all of these odd rules they have here. Thats about it for me